i connected with her through a shared love of learning and photography, and quickly we cultivated a relationship over 9000 miles apart. together we built a business, we built a friendship, and because of it we pushed forward through personal difficulties in our respective lives. this melding of the minds ended up being more than either of us could have imagined.

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